deportation

Chicago officials are creating a legal services fund to help those living in the country illegally and facing deportation. Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced $1 million to start the fund that's being run with the Chicago-based National Immigrant Justice Center. The money will be used to help individuals with consultations and representation, among other things.

The U-S Department of Health and Human Services says 305 unaccompanied children caught at the U.S.-Mexico border were placed with Illinois sponsors as of about two weeks ago. But Republican U-S Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois says hundreds more were at shelters.